강산 · 江山

강은 우리 가족이에요. 산은 우리가 살던 곳이고, 나무는 그때의 기억이에요.

The river is our family. The mountains are where we lived; the trees are what we remember there.

여기부터는 아직 쓰지 않았어요.

Nothing is written here yet.

강 · 江 RIVER: the family: every line in it is a person. 川 in the margin is its picture.
산 · 山 MOUNTAIN: a place and its years; darker where more was lived and remembered there. Its name box says which place. From above, each mountain stands on its own bank, its foot at the water and its crest pointing away from the river, as on old Korean painted maps.
기슭 · 麓 FOOT: the water beneath a mountain: the people who lived there those years.
물길 · 水路 A PERSON: one line in their ink, from birth to now, at the foot of the mountain they lived under. Dashed where the place is not recorded.
샘 · 泉 SPRING: a line that begins from outside this tree. with a stem.
탄생 · 誕生 BIRTH: a line that begins on its parents' lines. (dashed: about that year).
합류 · 合流 UNION: two lines meet and run together; the year is written. A second bracket marks an end; lines that part without one lived apart.
이사 · 移徙 A MOVE: a line, or the whole river, crosses to another mountain's foot.
마른 물길 · 枯川 DRY BED: the line of someone who has died, in dots. It stays at the foot where they lived for as long as the family lives beneath that mountain.
나무 · 木 MEMORY: one limb per person who was there, in their ink, in a crown of leaves; a fruit per telling, hanging on its teller's limb in their ink: 사진 寫眞 photo · 글 記 note · 목소리 聲 voice · 작품 作品 work. A bare limb, with no fruit and no leaves on it: there, nothing added yet. A shoot beside the tree: told later, was not there.
파문 · 波紋 RIPPLE: the same memory on the water beneath its mountain; one ring per telling; wider when more people and tellings are in it.
울림 · 餘響 ECHO: an earlier memory's ripple reaches a later one, darker where they meet: a stone thrown upstream makes rings downstream. Read from their words; not a fact the family wrote.
붉은 인장 · 朱印 RED SEAL: one who was there is living · no one. The only red.
가족 나무 · 家族 FAMILY TREE: the whole family at once (源 발원지, the headwaters our river comes from), reached from the view switcher at the top (on a phone, the bar at the bottom) or with T; Esc goes back. Oldest on the left, one column per generation. A small circle is a person; a spring with no stream coming in has no parents in this tree. Where two streams meet, two people married; the streams that leave are their children. A dotted stream: no longer living. On the family tree a woman's stream and name are rose, a man's blue, and grey when it is not known (the key is under the counts). Seen from above, each stream is water that widens as it runs; the ringed mountains beside it are the places its people lived, and each small round tree on its bank is a memory, a dot of colour for each telling. 강은 우리가 흘러온 길, 발원지는 우리가 비롯된 곳 · the river is the way we came; the headwaters are where we come from.
지금 · 今 NOW: the line across the whole land. 여백 · 餘白 THE UNWRITTEN PAPER — the paper after it is still rolled; nothing is written on it yet.

작은 글씨 · how to read it honestly

Which bank a mountain stands on, and how far from the river, is the painter's arrangement; which mountain the river runs beneath is the record.
The lines through a ripple are whoever lived at that foot; who was there is the tree's limbs.
Trees and ripples are sized against this family's largest memory, and ripples shrink together so none touch and none is wider than one year; adding a memory can resize them all.
An echo's darkness is relative to this family's strongest echo.
A seal is pressed once: a sealed memory's ripple that reaches a later one carries no seal.

↓ + enter: into the valley · ↑ − esc: from above · ← → two years · shift ← → memory to memory · home / end · N: now · P: read · T: 가족 나무 the family tree (esc: back) · ?: this

가족 나무에서 온 가족을 한눈에see the whole family in the family tree